each containing 20 percent of the population: from the 20 percent richest to the 20 percent poorest. Subsequently, it measures the (in)equality between those five baskets. The problem when using this coefficient for Indonesia, however, is that the country is characterized...
One-Tenth of India's Population Escaped Poverty in 5 Years - Government Report More Reuters FILE PHOTO: Residents walk in an alley in Dharavi, one of Asia's largest slums, in Mumbai March 12, 2015. REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui/File Photo By Manoj Kumar NEW DELHI (Reuters...
As the population grows the demand for these materials begins to exceed sustainable yields and the people then need money to supplement the deficiency. In addition to the effect of overpopulation on the lands sustainability other major enviornmental problems of India include farming on submarginal ...
The world is rapidly becoming urban with the global population living in cities projected to double by 2050. This increase in urbanization poses new challenges for the spread and control of communicable diseases such as malaria. In particular, urban environments create highly heterogeneous socio-economi...
Similarly, 80–85% of the variation in child undernutrition was attributable to within-population differences in India (Mejía-Guevara et al., 2015; Rodgers et al., 2019). Such evidence points towards the importance of considering variation within geographical units, such as districts, while ...
Food Insecurity, Social Vulnerability, and the Impact of COVID-19 on Population Dependent on Public Assistance / SNAP: A Case Study of South Carolina, USA Apart from clinical and epidemiological factors, a multitude of demographic, social, and economic factors also influence the extent of the cor...
As you can see, the richest 1 percent of the population in China now earn a much bigger share of national income. Our friends on the left tell us that inequality is terrible. If they are right, the above chart is a damning indictment of China’s partial economic liberalization, which led...
in part because of its degree ofindustrializationand its imperial holdings and in spite of the fact that three-fourths or more of its population was working-class.Late in the period, Britain began to decline as a global political and economic power relative to other major powers, particularly ...
who live mostly in rural areas, domestic use of electricity is rare. India alone accounts for more than 35% of the world’s population without electricity access. Most domestic energy in India comes from biomass (firewood,crop residueand dung), and India consumes 200 Mtoe (million tonnes of ...
In collaboration withMelinda Judge,Chitra Saraswati, Claire Perry,Jane Heyworth, andPeter Le Souëfof theUniversity of Western Australia‘sSchool of Medicineand theTelethon Kids Institute, we found that higher baby death rates and larger household sizes (as an indicator of population density) lead...